US Patent Issued to TOPPAN PRINTING on Jan. 13 for "Method for evaluating anticancer effect and method for predicting effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,647, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOPPAN PRINTING Co. Ltd. (Taito-ku, Japan).

"Method for evaluating anticancer effect and method for predicting effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy" was invented by Shiro Kitano (Taito-ku, Japan), Kei Tsukamoto (Taito-ku, Japan), Rii Morimura (Taito-ku, Japan) and Shinji Irie (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing an anticancer effect including culturing a cell structure including cancer cells and stromal cells in a presence of an anticancer drug and immune cells, and measuring the number of living cancer cells in the cell structure after the culturing, as an indi...